A specialized 3-D printing extruder developed by a
University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) sophomore and his collaborator could
lower the costs of printing cellular structures for use in drug testing.
The CarmAl extruder – shorthand for Carbohydrate Anhydrous
Rapid Manufacturing Aluminum extruder – its controlling software and the
manufacturing processes being developed by second-year biological sciences
student Tanner Carden and collaborator Devon Bane are able to produce a sugar
grid that mimics blood vessels.